A Santa Barbara native, Rob Robinson is the son of the late residential architect Frank D. Robinson, popular Santa Barbara Adult Education Center teacher Peggy Lane and grandson of the late Mildred Bryant Brooks (prominent etcher of the early 1900’s).

Rob’s inspiration to paint is routed in his desire to create something of lasting value and while doing so, find a little peace in the hustle-bustle of every day life. “Painting is an engrossing experience for me”, says Robinson, “it’s a chance to push and express myself to some satisfactory resonation using very simple tools, those being essentially, one's life experiences, color suspended in oil and a brush. With all that’s going on in the world today, and which for the most part we have little say, it provides me an opportunity to create something of beauty and resolve life as I would like to see it, if only for a moment, in the world of a four sided canvas."

Rob has received numerous awards for his paintings and is a member of the Santa Barbara Art Association, the California Art Club, Oil Painters of America and SCAPE (Southern California Painters for the Environment). He is a frequent guest artist of the Oak Group and credits Michael Drury, Hank Pitcher, John Comer, Marcia Burtt, Meredith and Whitney Abbott, Jorgen Hansen, Ray Strong, the Oak Group and many others for his inspiration, learning and success.